Title: Email to other instructors
Course: CPS 161: An Intro to Programming with Java - DL MM MASTER

I forgot if we figured out who was grading which assignments in cps161. I would recommend that one of you grades JH2, JH4 and JH6 and the other grades JH3, JH5 and JH7. Decide between yourselves and let me know.

I will do the midterm and final parts. I will also compute and post midterm and final grades.

If you want to stop by sometime during one of my office hours I could demo a few things about grading in blackboard that would be useful to you.

Comments on grading:
1.) You can download a zip of all of the student zip files from blackboard. There is an arrow on the top of the assignment in the grade center which gives you this option. This is useful.
2.) I mainly look to see that there programs work. With the zip files, it should be relatively easy to quickly run their programs. If you unzip their project, Eclipse allows you to create a project from the folder created from their zip file. You could look at their worksheet and believe their output, but sometimes students make up output that doesn't go with their code.
3.) In the Assignments link in blackboard, you can see my published answer for any of these assignments. The students won't be able to see the published answers until they have received a grade. This will give you some idea of what I was looking for.
4.) If the students are clearly missing something they should lose points. If their code is not the best but it works you can give them some feedback to this, but in general I usually give full credit if ugly code works.
5.) Starting with JH3, I have a "rubric" link on the top of the assignment where I tell them some fundamental things they should be doing like indenting their code. If they flagrantly ignore this, they should lose something. If they have an occasional bad thing I may mention it.
6.) What I give them for feedback on JH1 is not a good example for the other JH assignments. In JH1, the only problem that the students have difficulty with is the last one. Usually they come up with something, but sometimes it is a bit ugly. The remaining assignments >= JH2 have more "meat" to them.
7.) I usually like to download the assignments the next day at a reasonable hour. If a student turns in something a little past midnight I don't worry too much about it being late as long as it shows up when I download it.
8.) Because students turn in assignments late, you might want to check back periodically to see any late assignments that need to be graded.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Clem Hasselbach

February 6, 2015 6:29 PM